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Definition of Decrements
1. decrement [n] - See also: decrement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrements
Literary usage of Decrements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the External, Chemical and Physical Characters of Minerals by Robert Jameson (1817)
"decrements only at the angles contiguous to the summits A, O', and that these
decrements take place by two ranges ; then, instead of 24 faces, ..."
2. Wireless Telegraphy by Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (1915)
"Determination of the decrements of the Primary and Secondary Circuits.—a. ...
To obtain the individual decrements, we may, for example, proceed as follows ..."
3. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Divide the fum of the decrements of life in the Table of ... The fum of the
decrements of life, in this table, from the age of 40, for 20 years, is 127, ..."
4. Elements of Crystallography: After the Method of Haüy; With, Or Without by Friedrich Christian Accum (1813)
"LAWS OF DECREMENT OF THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS NATURE AND PRODUCTION OF SECONDARY
FORMS, SIMPLE AND COMPOUND decrements ON THE EDGES decrements ON THE ..."
5. A Treatise on Fluxions by Colin MacLaurin (1801)
"... or decrements at once, by supposing BD and DG to be the spaces described in
the interval of time betwixt two such succeeding terms, or in a part of that ..."
6. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"HYPOTHESIS OF MOLECULAR decrements. § 35 a. The laws of symmetry which exist
between all ... decrements."
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